Part 32 (2/2)

Driven back in disorder, I hurried up my second line----

”Do you knoho these bullocks belong to?” I inquired o akin to a sist as, conte the lop ears of his horse, he observedly contentedly,

”Ees, shure; an' 'hat's f'r w'y Oi be a-teakin' of 'em”

”Well, Alf's laid-up; not able to look after them”----

”Oi 've 'eard 'at yaan afoor”

----”so I've come to take them back, and leave them at his camp on Mondunbarra”

”Horrite Oi wants wun-an'-twenty bob horf o' you afoor 'em (bullocks) tehns reaoun'”

”Will you have it now, or wait till you get it?” I asked, betrayed by the annoyance of the entle you the money, provided it clears the bullocks for the future--not otherwise In theto take thewean to resky 'e his hippopota me frankly in the face, whilst an almost merry twinkle animated his small blue eyes

”By no ether for a fewman The Immovable had scored, simply because he was a person of one idea, and that idea panoplied in inorance

A cooing to the station yards, and that he, Fitz-Hengist, was taking thearded hiwean ter walk on hutheh foak,” he reainst the world for bull-headedness,” I sneered, ai, in desperation, at the heel by whichhis baptism in the thick, slab bath of undiluted oxy-obstinacy (scientific syood arrow-point penetrated his epiderhed contemptuously ”Fat lot you care for orders! Aabout orders! Get out!”

”Wot's a (person) to diew?” The point was forcing its way through the sensitive second-skin, or cutis

”Do!” I repeated, with increasing scorn ”Strikes me, you can do pretty well as you like on this station”

”Bea n't Oi a-diewin'expostulation--the point now settling in the vascular tissues

”It's in the blood, right enough,” I retorted, with insolent frankness, and still regarding him out of the comer of my eye ”I believe you're Viscount Canterbury's brother, on the wrong side of the blanket”

”Keep 'e tely, as the poison filtered through his system ”Zpeak 'e moind feear atwixt man an' man

Bea n't Oi a-dieot Oi be a-peead f'r diewin'? Coomh!”

”Well, you are a ru the action of the virus ”I' excuses like that Do you know”--andstruck )

”I wish you were, both for my sake and your own However, that can't be helped Now, for the future, you'll have the satisfaction of knowing that you had your oay, and that you walked a man's bullocks off to the yard while he was helpless Yes, sir; I 'lishetting back; and if I've said anything to offend you, I ' him out of the comer of my eye, I turned Cleopatra slowly round

”'Ole 'aad!” he snorted ”Oi calls 'e a (adj) feul!”